Fields left barren and returning to wilderness, iron and coal left in the ground, and worse, able bodied men who have pride in their abilities have no future but a "government check" if they are ingenious enough to feign some disability.

My life and work - Google Books

"The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course. I have no suggestion which goes beyond accepting in its fullest this principle of nature. I take it for granted that we must work." --Henry Ford